The mealybug gets to our indoor flowers in different ways, with the purchase of new plants that have not passed quarantine, when the room is ventilated by the wind, through unneutered land.
Some plants are especially fond of worms, if they have something to choose from, they attack specific plants. For example, ficus elastica do not really favor, benjamins too, and dwarf ficus is stuck in two counts.
Myrtle worms, cacti, hoya bella, pomegranates, orchids and other plants are strongly attacked. It is easier to get rid of the worm from large-leaved plants - wash the leaves with a soap solution, repeat in two days.
It is almost impossible to remove the worm manually from small-leaved ones, like myrtle. The most offensive thing is that sometimes worms are found only at the moment when the leaves begin to fly around en masse.
At first glance, worms are lazy, little mobile insects. But if you look closely, you can see how deftly they crawl, moving their antennae. Colonies grow very quickly, pests are mobile at any age, they can destroy the plant in any 2 days. The problem to bring them out exists, and it is associated with the fact that the body of the mealybug is covered with a waxy coating that protects the body from external influences, including the penetration of poisons. Therefore, spraying never helps the first time. The best way out is to soak the crown of the plant in a bucket for 5 minutes. But at the same time, it is necessary to choose non-phytotoxic drugs.
How to deal with mealybug
Natalie: The mealybug attacked all the plants on the windowsill, watered by Aktara twice, well spilling an earthen lump. It did not help, after two weeks the colony was revived. Next intavir treatment. The result is the same: after two weeks, leaves were pouring again. It was the turn of heavy artillery - an actellic. Soaking the crown in a bucket of solution, and watering. I washed the drug off the leaves after 10 minutes with a hot shower. Finally, the worms are gone. Instead of reprocessing (too poisonous drug) every week all flowers under a hot shower.
Elena: If the lesion is small, then you can do without chemistry by treating the affected plant several times with a soap solution (it is better to rinse the solution the next day). Drugs: inta-vir (contains cypermethrin), actara (thiamethoxam), agravertin (aversectin C).
Lecos: Treated with alcohol thoroughly - worked for 2 days in a row. And she removed the affected leaves (some horror - the martyrs built cities there), at the same time she pinched all the shoots (all the same, young non-residents are strongly deformed). Then I sprayed Mospilan - I found nothing else, sprayed thoroughly from all sides and sides - completely wet the plants, and poured them well into the ground.
Buttercup: I treated (lubricated) with a soap-alcohol solution (20 g of liquid soap in 1 liter of hot water, cool and add 20 ml of alcohol). Chervets is missing.
Dasha: Mealy worm, very nasty thing, but, in general, to be treated, try to process "Aktar," it helped me.
mAXIMUS: I used a mixture of Actara and garlic. But before that, I had to remove them with a paper clip from young shoots, because these bugs, when small ones sit under small leaves that are pressed to the escape.
Colleague: We need to process cacti with poison very abundantly, even shed, probably. Fitoverm will not help from him. He is only good from a tick, he does not take the rest...
Buy Bi-58 or confidor, process once and that's it. Confidor 1 gram per liter, Bi-58 - ampoule for 2 liters.